The relationship between structure and function for the sulfite reductases

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 744-756

  Crane, Brian R ^a   Getzoff, Elizabeth D ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL ENZYME; HEMOPROTEIN; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; SULFIDE; SULFITE; SULFITE REDUCTASE;

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030472457     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80003-0     Document Type: Article

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